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  about the author

  walter dean myers is a poet, a novelist, a playwright, and a musician, as well as an avid collector of memorabilia. His books for young readers have received numerous awards, including two Newbery Honors, five Coretta Scott King Awards, four Boston Globe–Horn Book Honors, the Margaret A. Edwards Award, the first Michael L. Printz Award, the Alan Award, and the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award. 145th Street: Short Stories was a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book.

  Walter Dean Myers grew up in New York City’s Harlem.

  Published by Wendy Lamb Books

  an imprint of Random House Children’s Books

  a division of Random House, Inc.

  New York

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and

  incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination

  or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living

  or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2007 by Walter Dean Myers

  All rights reserved.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Myers, Walter Dean.

  What they found: love on 145th street / Walter Dean Myers. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, such as a

  dying father’s determination to help start a family business—a beauty salon—and

  the relationship of two teens who plan to remain celibate until they marry.

  Contents: The fashion show, grand opening, and bar-b-que memorial service—

  What would Jesus do?—Mama—The life you need to have—Burn—Some men are

  just funny that way—-Jump at the sun—Law and order—The man thing—Society

  for the Preservation of Sorry-Butt Negroes—Madonna—The real deal—Marisol and

  Skeeter—Poets and plumbers—Combat zone.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-54918-1

  [1. Love—Fiction. 2. Family life—Fiction. 3. Beauty shops—Fiction.

  4. African Americans—Fiction. 5. Harlem (New York, N.Y)—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.M992Wgr 2007

  [Fic]—dc22 2007007057

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